House passes Pentagon funding bill and a blueprint to unlock new dollars for Iran war

House Republicans passed $1.1 trillion in funding for the military on Wednesday, in a final flurry of activity before leaving Washington for a more than month-long recess.

The funding, an annual military policy bill called the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, passed by a vote of 216 to 212, with six Democrats joining Republicans to support the bill. It now heads to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain path forward.

The bill — typically advanced with broad bipartisan majorities — has become a largely party-line effort this year. Republicans call the bill “a generational investment in America’s national defense” that “builds the fighting force of the future by prioritizing innovation, lethality, and readiness.”

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